Re: request for XML resources
/ Cory Snavely <csnavely@umich.edu> was heard to say:
| Keep in mind that a significant portion of XML technology hasn't much to
| do with text processing but with databases and application development.
| In fact it's my impression that's where the bulk of the interest lies,
| which was (and is still) not the case with SGML. SGML was always been
| largely applied to text processing.
I don't dispute that that's true, but I think it's wrong to
extrapolate that "XML is for data" or "SGML is for text". XML is as
much a marketing victory for SGML as anything else.
Making SGML a tad simpler made writing parsers easier. Making validity
optional further reduced the "startup cost" of converting to SGML. So
suddenly this 10 year old technology got a new lease on life and
thousands of people discovered something that had been there all the
time.
Markup is good. Proprietary is bad. Therefore XML.
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | We dance around in a ring and suppose,
http://nwalsh.com/ | but the Secret sits in the middle and
| knows.--Robert Frost
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